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Glenallen Hill, who got his second start as a Cub Monday...

August 24, 1993|By Alan Solomon.

MONTREAL — Glenallen Hill, who got his second start as a Cub Monday night, endured a situation in Cleveland not unlike the one Candy Maldonado ran into in Chicago: early projections were replaced by grim realities and, finally, general disenchantment on all sides.

"They wanted to make way for this young kid named Manny Ramirez," Hill said. Ramirez, a top prospect, is still a year or more away. But it was clear, for whatever reason, that Hill had no future with the Indians.

He probably doesn't have much of a future with the Cubs-chances of them offering arbitration from this year's $975,000 starting point are zero-and he understands that.

"The bottom line is, you've got to go out there and play. That's why I'm here. I love to play."

- The last Cub to hit into a triple play before Rey Sanchez did it Monday night: Domingo Ramos, Sept. 27, 1989, also in Montreal.

- Manager Jim Lefebvre said Monday that Shawon Dunston's declaration that he won't be ready for a minor-league rehab assignment is "a little shock to me." He also said he won't question Dunston's decision.

"You have to respect the player's evaluation of it," Lefebvre said. "But I was very encouraged by the way he was progressing."

- Rick Wilkins, willing to test a notion that an oversensitivity to light might be a factor in his poor daytime numbers, may try a variation of sunglasses when the team comes home next week.

"I don't know if there's any validity to it," Wilkins said. "Who knows what it could be? But it's something I'll look into, for sure."

Wilkins began the night with 23 homers. Jody Davis hit 24 for the Cubs in 1983. The most hit by a Cubs catcher before that: 37, by Gabby Hartnett in 1930.

- The last Cubs outfielder with more assists than Sammy Sosa's 15 was Lou Brock, who had 17 in 1963.